(Sharecast News) - Americans kept their purse strings nearly closed in May.
According to the Department of Commerce, in seasonally adjusted terms retail sales edged up at a month-on-month pace of 0.1% to reach $703.9bn (consensus: 0.2%).

That followed a two tenths of a percentage point downwards revision to April's...

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